My recipe uses breadcrumbs. I like to make my own. I keep a plastic bag above the oven that is full leftover dried bread. You need to make sure that the bread is completely dry before storing it away, or it will become MOLDY. It always amazes me that …
On Friday I was a guest of BP at the Our Greatest Team Rises gala event at the Royal Albert Hall. My main mission was to chat with five time Olympic rowing champion Steve Redgrave!
The fabulous Fish Is the Dish peeps sent me over a load of fresh Haddock via @ukSeafoodchef.
So what to make with it?
The wet weather inspired me to create this really easy fish stew, with a Mediterranean influence.
Here goes…
I don’t know why we haven’t done this before. Santa Cruz. It’s only 40 minutes from where we stay in California. There is sun, surf, restaurants that serve local lobster and an Edwardian Boardwalk. We go on day trips all the time … but until now, never made a weekend out of it. The Dream …
Everyone has their own idea of a perfect day in a favourite city– a secret haunt, restaurant, coffee shop or that special view. If you get it right, it's like putting on your favourite sweater. I lived in San Francisco in the 90s when I was single, upwardly mobile and thought I was the luckiest person in the world. If I squint, I can just about remember it. Now I live in the UK and have three gorgeous girls (ages 5, 6 and 8). Of course I wanted to share my favourite city with them. Oh, just an aside, please never say Frisco in my presence.
So what's my perfect day in San Francisco?
Drive down Lombard Street. Enter at the top of Greenwich.
The Modern Family were lucky enough to get invited to the launch of the Legoland Hotel in Windsor, which included a complimentary night's stay and a day in the park. Little did we know celebs, like Vic Reeves, Tim Minchin, Michael McIntyre, Emily Maitlis, and Zoe Ball would be there too. The girls could not believe their luck and told all their school friends they had the coolest mummy in the world.
I know, I know. Two blog posts in a week. Don’t fall off your chair. I just couldn’t resist my own entry for the BritMums Virgin Money Piggy Bank Tales competition.
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I don't write that much BritMums here, the parent blogger network I founded nearly four years ago. Actually I don't seem to be writing much here at all! BritMums is keeping me very, very busy.
For one, we just launched the Brilliance in Blogging Awards - aka The BiBs. They celebrate the best parent blogs in the UK on a wide variety of topics and styles. There's a category for newbies, there's a category for foodies, there's even a category for daddies (although we expect we'll see them in some of the other categories as well…fashion, anyone?).
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